Sneetches and Recruiting

Submitted by DoctorDave on
Apparently, college football fans weren't the first to be concerned about who has or doesn't have an appropriate number of stars. According to Dr. Seuss, star envy has been around since the time of the Sneetches.
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January 15th, 2010 at 2:09 AM ^

But what happens next is, a guy shows up with a machine that can put stars on the plain-bellied sneetches, or else removes the stars from star-bellied sneetches. So all the plain-bellied sneetches go through the machine and become star-bellied sneetches. They think the original star-bellied sneetches will accept them as equals, but instead the star-bellied sneetches have their stars removed and then declare that it's better to be a plain-bellied sneetch. I think the moral of the story is that Michigan wins 9 games next year.

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M-Wolverine

January 15th, 2010 at 9:48 AM ^

Funny, I think the completion of the story was the description of the local media's view on MSU's instate recruiting...you know, everyone they get has stars added to them, while the ones that come here have them taken away. But then they know not having stars is more special.

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MaizeAndBlueWahoo

January 15th, 2010 at 10:36 AM ^

Not to ruin the ending, but eventually of course, things get so confused what with Sneetches running in and out of the star machines that some of them forget whether or not they have one and Pat White sneetches are created. Nobody thinks those sneetches are any good, but they go on to have awesome college careers and the moral of the story is stars don't matter.

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